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I'm only 49, but I'm sceptical there was ever a golden period of competent politicians. Politics is incredibly difficult and required mastery of impossible swathes of detail. We award yesterday's pol… (View Post)

To be fair to HYUFD, I think that is his point - that this board isn't representative - implicitly (?) for the reasons you set out. Not only is this site something of a middle class bubble (though I … (View Post)

The problem with not making a fuss is that nobody notices you not making a fuss about things. See also: International Men's Day. (View Post)

Oh do behave HYUFD. As it happens, there isn't a Gail's in Frodsham (I've just checked) but it's exactly the sort of place you'd expect to find one. The nearest Gail's is at the Cheshire Oaks retail … (View Post)

My first political memory was seeing Michael Foot's wife knocked over by a low branch while standing a moving open-topped bus in Ipswich in 1983. I think. When I was at uni, my politics course was ta… (View Post)